Rockport Fishy Report

[Freakyfisherman]

The preamble...

Been a while since Cookie and I have wet a line. While living in Alabama for a couple years, we hosted a Foreign Exchange student (Girl) from Italy. Had a lot of fun and stayed close to her and her family. Always teased her younger sister that I had a room ready when she was...she called this summer and said "she was" and wanted to see photos of her bed room. Some hasty tool work on my mancave converted it to a princess pad and my new daughter arrived in Aug. Got her pretty much settled in and she is hard at working breaking young cowboy hearts. Poor things look like a spring run bull calf trying to chase down a prize heifer (dont tell her I called her a heifer - I dont think the translation will go over well)

But I digress - this is a fishing report...so onward

She was busy texting boys, so I grabbed Cookie for a quick evening run to Rockport. Fished Pat's Point. Some nice transition from mud flats to a bit deeper area. Perch were moving back and forth nicely. Bite was on and strong. Threw about 15 in a bag for dinner and turned twice as many free for the next time. Bite was on pugly perch bugs. Black shell with yellow body got the most action but a white shell with black or yellow body also did well. Fished them off a drop shot rig about 3-6 inches off the bottom, dragged in real slow with a bit of jigging action thrown in. Tipped with a bit of worm and the perchies came a running. No monsters but a mess of eater in the 8-10 inch range. And a few that went past 11. They were within easy cast distance - good thing cause a pretty steady breeze in the face would have made long distance chucking a challenge. Cookie, after about 20, had the shell half rip off her pugly bug, she did not even stop to tie on a new one. See photo

Smallies also joined in the fray - but no size

Showed our little Italian princess our dinner when we got home - she wants in on the next run. Good girl

No video this time but a few photos

Im just a lttle bit jelly of your perch haul. Nice work. Been too long since I had some perch fish tacos. My last effort at Rockport was a big skunk. Im hoping to get out in my tube next week on Rockport and give it another go. Either that or look for some walleye on Deer creek. Decisions decisions....
Gabe